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<br/>The colourful festival of Holi is celebrated on Phalgun Purnima which comes in February end or early March. 
<br/>Holi festival has an ancient origin and celebrates the triumph of 'good' over 'bad'. 
<br/>The colourful festival bridges the social gap and renews sweet relationships. 
<br/>On this day, people hug and wish each other 'Happy Holi'.
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<br/>B)
<br/>This festival of joy, mirth and buoyancy is celebrated when both Man and Nature cast off their winter gloom. 
<br/>Holi heralds the arrival of Spring - the season of hope and new beginnings and marks the rekindling of the spirit of life. 
<br/>Gulmohurs, corals, silk-cottons and mango trees start flowering, gardens and parks present a glorious spectacle of a riot of colours - crimson, red, pink, orange, golden yellow, lemon and a variety of glittering greens.
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<br/>C)
<br/>Men who remained indoors during the cold months of winter emerge out to see a new sparkling world of colour and gaiety.
<br/>The flowers breathe out their fragrance into space and brooks and streams leap in the valleys. 
<br/>Men rejoice with brilliant light of day and the eloquent silence of night. 
<br/>And then the joy bubbling in their hearts find expression in dance, drama and music. 
<br/>Holi also puts an end to the days of trials and tribulations for the poor who remained ill-clad and without adequate shelter during the chilling cold of the winter season. 
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<br/>D)
<br/>Packer Kashif lives in Delhi and told us all about his preparations for the festival. 
<br/>Kashif: Hi, I'm Kashif, 12years old and I live at Delhi in India. 
<br/>"Holi is the Indian festival where everyone gets covered in colour. It is a really fun and messy day. 
<br/>It is celebrated every year in March to welcome the beginning of spring and the power of good over evil. 
<br/>The day before, I go to the market to buy my colour, which is a powder called gulal. I bought red, green, yellow, pink and blue and I got loads as I didn't want to run out.
<br/>Next I bought my pitchkari - a water pistol for squirting the colour with.
<br/>The colour powder is mixed with water and then sucked up into the pitchkari to spray.
<br/>Traditionally, powder is rubbed onto each others faces and you say 'happy holi' and hug.
<br/>The adults still do this but spraying coloured water is much more fun!
<br/>It goes on for hours - until we are worn out. On Monday at school everyone has still got colour on them - even the teachers! 
<br/>The longest my colour stayed on was three days.
<br/>This year was better than ever - there were so many of us. It is definitely the most fun we have all year and I wish it could be every week."
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